Uma pista para a gênese das ciências normativas: cronologia, contexto e relevância das classificações dos fins de Peirce

Alessandro Topa

doi:10.23925/2316-5278.2022v23i1:e59911

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Alessandro Topa The American University in Cairo; Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg

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https://doi.org/10.23925/2316-5278.2022v23i1:e59911

Abstract

Which considerations led Peirce to introduce the normative sciences of Ethics and Esthetics into the architectonic of philosophical inquiries that he first outlined and partially realized in 1902’s Minute Logic? In the present paper, we address that question by focusing on the taxonomies of ultimate ends of action that Peirce produced in 1900 and 1901. Whereas in 1898 Peirce had excluded Ethics from the domain of philosophical inquiry, the Minute Logic reflects a thoroughly revised conception of Ethics according to which there are three levels of ethical inquiry. The most fundamental of these levels is the formerly excluded “third branch [of philosophy], relating to ends” (R 435:10, 1898). As Peirce repeatedly referenced his classification of ultimate ends of action presented in his review of Karl Pearson’s Grammar of Science in December 1900, these taxonomies are not mere progenitors of “pure ethics”, but rather represent his first fundamental achievement in the realm of pre-logical normative science.

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